MEME MONDAY #100

We would have loved to have compiled a special one hundredth edition, but sadly poor health and work commitments are still holding us back.  It's just a bog standard Meme Monday...

Mon 7 Sept - 60 shares

Tue 8 Sep - 30 shares.  Lefty singer Pink (real name Alecia Moore) took
offence to being likened to Eddie on her birthday in 2023, lashing out at a
troll on her social media.  She failed to see the irony as a 'trans ally',
forgetting that Eddie is just a 'beautiful woman'!

Tue 8 Sep - 64 shares

Wed 9 Sep - 81 shares

Thu 10 Sep - 78 shares.  This post received a handful of despicable remarks
from lefty trolls and a grand total of twelve laughing emojis (out of more than a
thousand emoji reactions).  The left really are pathetic.  As a mark of respect
in honour of Charlie, not one of these clowns was banned from our page.  As a
free speech advocate, he would have sought to debate, not censor

Thu 10 Sep - 260 shares

Sat 12 Sep - 152 shares

Sun 13 Sep - 607 shares

Sun 13 Sep - 70 shares.  A reference to Orwell's 1984

Half a dozen Facebook Stories were published across the two pages last week, including another three editions of Diversity Is Strength...

BOATWATCH #76

An eight day lull was obliterated last Sunday when eight boats were picked up carrying an average of 78 colonists per vessel.  Two more followed the next day, followed by another lull that continued for the remainder of the week.

One of those eight boats picked up on Sunday included a whopper carrying 140 colonists that departed much further south than the usual area around Calais.  As a consequence, the dinghy travelled a much longer path towards Hampshire as opposed to Kent.  Outrageously, it was shadowed for almost its entire journey - ten hours - by the French coastguard.  The French claimed that it was 'not safe to attempt to stop the dinghy on water'.  Funny, because as soon as it crossed into British waters the collaborator vessels had no such issues stopping the boat and getting its occupants on board.

The UK government has paid France well over a billion pounds to stop small boat crossings since 2018.  The most recent deal, signed in April this year, commits an eye watering £662 million over three years.  It would cost the Royal Navy a tiny fraction of that to merely sink one dinghy - that's all it would take to stop the boats coming.  All the treaties and deals are a charade.  The reality is that neither the UK or French governments want to stop the boats - they are the biggest people smugglers of all.

On a lighter note, the flash mob that gathered in Portsmouth to greet the 140 migrants off that boat was very much well received by the wider public - regardless of what gutless politicians from the likes of Reform say about these lads.  If our own government and His Majesty's Armed Forces won't lift a finger to defend these shores, what else are right-minded patriotic Britons supposed to do!

Total = 768

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 10.09.26

The preview and forecast returned this week, with four seats up for grabs and two defences apiece for Labour and the Tories.  The red and blue halves of the Uniparty managed a hold each, but also lost a seat each to Reform.  It was an impressive hold for Labour in Manchester, who surged back into pole position in a ward in which they were heavily defeated by the Greens on May 7.  It was bad news for Zack's crazy gang and will be of particular concern to local Green MP Hannah Spencer.  It was a rough day all round for the Greens, who scored two wooden spoons elsewhere.

A large swing from Labour to Reform near Dennis Skinner's old hunting ground was enough to unseat Labour at the first time of asking, while they did the same to the Tories in Somerset, leaving them trailing way behind in third place.  It seems that the Channel 4 exposé did not have quite the impact the broadcaster intended.

Burnage, Manchester City Council

Lab: 1,365 (42.1%) +12.8%

Grn: 1,037 (32.0%) -13.8%

WPB: 466 (14.4%) +12.2%

Ref: 315 (9.7%) -7.3%

LDm: 31 (1.0%) -2.1%

Con: 27 (0.8%) -1.4%

Lab HOLD

Triggered by the election of the Labour incumbent (Bev Craig) to the post of Mayor of Greater Manchester.  This ward in the south of the city has historically elected Labour councillors, but the Greens surged way ahead of Labour here in May.  This was no great surprise, as the ward has a very large Muslim population.  All the parties selected Asian candidates, with the exception of Labour and Reform.  Labour's decision did nothing to dissuade sectarian voters, who appear to have dispensed with the Green Party now their stance on Alphabet People is more widely known.  There was no independent candidate this time around.

Karl - Grn GAIN ✘

Rich - Grn GAIN ✘

Eckington South & Renishaw, North East Derbyshire District Council

Ref: 426 (40.2%) New

Lab: 298 (28.1%) -31.9%

Con: 229 (21.6%) -12.7%

Ind: 55 (5.2%) New

Grn: 52 (4.9%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

Triggered by the resignation of the Labour incumbent, who had served as the councillor for this rural ward since 2023.  He had become increasingly estranged from his party and had openly criticised the leadership, including several damning appearances on GB News.  It is not clear what ultimately sparked his decision to stand down, but it came soon after Andy Burnham's coronation.  It appears he had little confidence in his new leader.  North Derbyshire is traditional Red Wall territory, but Labour's control of the council was hanging by a thread and their defeat to Reform on Thursday saw the council tip into no overall control.  The Lib Dems did not stand this time.

Karl - Ref GAIN ✔

Rich - Ref GAIN ✔

Hutton & Locking, North Somerset Council

Ref: 706 (38.5%) New

LDm: 612 (33.3%) +16.2%

Con: 281 (15.3%) -16.6%

Lab: 133 (7.2%) -7.1%

Grn: 104 (5.7%) New

Ref GAIN from Con

Triggered by the death of the 80-year-old Tory incumbent.  The two seats in this mostly rural ward to the south and east of Weston-super-Mare have been evenly split between a Tory and an independent at the last two elections.  There was no independent this time around, with Reform and the Lib Dems appearing to benefit from the absence as the Tories were pushed into distant third.  North Somerset is currently run by a 'progressive alliance' of Labour, Lib Dems, Greens and independents.  As a result of Thursday's by-election there are now two Reform councillors here.

Karl - Con HOLD ✘

Rich - Grn GAIN ✘

Haverhill West, West Suffolk Council

Con: 530 (51.3%) +16.5%

Ref: 267 (25.8%) New

Lab: 146 (14.1%) -23.4%

Grn: 60 (5.8%) New

LDm: 30 (2.9%) New

Con HOLD

Triggered by the resignation of the Tory incumbent.  She cited health concerns for her departure, stemming from social media abuse and a formal complaint that had been lodged against her by a fellow unnamed councillor.  West Suffolk is a fairly new local authority, having been founded in 2019.  Like North Somerset above, it is currently run by a 'progressive alliance'.  Labour is the largest party in the coalition with 15 seats, while there are 16 independents, two Greens and one Lib Dem.  The two seats in this suburban ward were split between Labour and the Conservatives at the most recent election in 2023, with the incumbent Tory denying Labour from winning both seats by a slender margin of just eight votes.  There was no contest this time, with Labour slumping to third place as the Tories delivered a routine hold.  There was no indepenedent candidate this time.

Karl - Ref GAIN ✘

Rich - Lab GAIN ✘

Richey led Karl by six points going into this week's round and that hasn't changed after this very poor round for both of them!

MEME MONDAY #99

Karl had a slightly better week and was helped out by a couple of Richey efforts.  Normal service appears to be some way off.

Mon 31 Aug - 132 shares

Tue 1 Sep - 53 shares

Thu 3 Sep - 766 shares

Fri 4 Sep - 14 shares

Sun 6 Sep - 10 shares

We promised a 'Diversity Is Strength' special this week and Karl has not disappointed, producing a series of Facebook Stories dedicated to multi-cultural crime, alongside a handful of other designs.

BOATWATCH #75

An eight day lull ensued after 122 colonists were brought ashore on Saturday 29 August.  Zero arrivals last week was bookended today by a whopper of a dinghy carrying 140 migrants.  The dinghy reportedly departed much further south than usual - around 170 miles from Calais - but was still escorted into UK waters by the French coastguard with no attempt to intercept.  So much for the meeting between Burnham and Macron last week, in which they discussed efforts to 'scale up' prevention efforts.  This included yet another deal, a 'payment by results' agreement that is based upon the French deploying an additional 40 per cent more police officers on the beaches.  That will be an additional 40 per cent of police officers doing next to nothing as the boats are loaded!

The British people must not allow this charade to continue beyond the next general election, we are being played for fools by the Uniparty.

ALERT SYSTEM GOT BURNED

Louise Haigh is said to have authorised the recent emergency alert, or was she
simply hung out to dry on account of the backlash?

It was one of the first major mis-steps of the Burnham regime - the disastrous decision to utilise the emergency alert system to issue a nationwide alert over the threat of potential wildfires.  Mobile phones across the country began blaring on the evening of Friday 14 August as the UK government warned the sheeple against going out into the dry grass and lighting barbecues and fireworks.  This was not an 'emergency', it was government overreach and it backfired spectacularly.

At BTLP, there is no such thing as a government alert on any phone belonging to either of us, as we strongly opposed this system from the outset.  We saw that it was clearly designed to expand the state into the private spaces of ordinary citizens in preparation for their planned digital social credit system.  It was highly unlikely to serve any life saving purpose, in fact in certain circumstances it could actually cost lives by alerting bad actors to the presence of hidden targets.  For instance, in acts of terror we were previously told to run, hide, fight - in that order - how are people supposed to remain successfully hidden when their phone begins blaring?  Then there is the most publicised drawback that claims domestic abuse victims can be at risk if hidden phones suddenly begin blaring and draw the ire of their abusers.  Of course, neither of these scenarios has reportedly cost any lives three years since the system was officially launched, but likewise no lives have been saved either!

At the time of our initial opposition, we were criticised by a fair few followers, many of whom appeared to be still wound up too tight from the scamdemic.  The fact it was a Tory government that rolled out the alert system added fuel to the backlash.  Perhaps things would have been a wee bit different if it had been a Labour government rolling it out, but when it comes to state overreach we were not going to give the Tories a free pass.

Various tests of the system began in 2023, at which point we advised people to either opt out in their phone settings or simply switch off their phones as the test was being carried out.  We were accused of overreacting - 'it's just a text message' - while others accused us of having tin foil wrapped around our heads.

National test alerts asides, most people in the UK had never received an emergency alert on their phone, with its only active use being targeted to specific areas or regions.  One 'emergency' related to an undetonated WWII bomb in Plymouth (that never detonated), while its only other uses related to three storm warnings, none of which can be proven to have had any impact whatsoever.  Most people tend to take notice of weather forecasts and word of mouth, and have survived their entire lives on this basis.

Then everything changed on August 14.  For the first time a national emergency alert was sent out - for the threat of wildfires, as opposed to an actual imminent wildfire bearing down on inhabited areas.  The trigger for the decision appeared to be a series of fires that struck the Midlands the previous day.  These fires destroyed several properties, but everyone involved was successfully evacuated without an emergency alert on their phones.  Perhaps local people would have forgiven the government for the imposition of an emergency alert in such circumstances, but a national alert over potential wildfires came 24 hours after their houses had already burned to the ground.

The decision to issue a national alert was catastrophic to the cause of the nanny state.  According to The Daily Telegraph, a huge spike in internet users searching for how to disable the alerts lingered long after the wildfire alert was sent out.  Likewise, an emoji poll we conducted on Facebook garnered an overwhelmingly negative response to the emergency alert system - contrasting with the backlash we received three years ago.

68 per cent of respondents indicated they had already opted out prior to the wildfire alert, with 29 per cent saying they would now consider doing so.  Just three per cent of the 115 respondents wanted to persevere with the alerts.  No-one told us to wrap our heads in tinfoil.

Public recognition of government overreach and the planned digital social credit system has increased exponentially in recent years and we will continue to do our bit in raising awareness.  Our freedom depends on it.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 03.09.26

There were five council seats up for grabs on Thursday, with one having taken place earlier on the somewhat unusual polling day of Wednesday.

There will be no preview and no forecast this week, due to a combination of sickness and holidays.  Apologies for the ongoing disruption.

Portobello/Craigmillar, City of Edinburgh Council

(first preference votes)

Grn: 1,781 (28.0%) +11.8%

SNP: 1,531 (24.1%) -13.3%

Lab: 1,413 (22.2%) -1.7%

Ref: 569 (8.9%) New

Con: 522 (8.2%) -7.1%

LDm: 365 (5.7%) +1.4%

SFP: 73 (1.1%) New

WPB: 58 (0.9%) New

ADF: 28 (0.4%) New

CPB: 22 (0.3%) New

Grn GAIN from SNP (elected at stage 10)

SFP is the Scottish Family Party, WFP is the Workers Party of Britain, ADF is the Alliance for Democracy and Freedom and CPB the Communist Party of Britain

Southside/Newington, City of Edinburgh Council

(first preference votes)

Lab: 2,153 (32.1%) +8.0%

Grn: 1,978 (29.5%) +6.4%

SNP: 757 (11.3%) -7.9%

Con: 717 (10.7%) -6.9%

LDm: 543 (8.1%) -8.0%

Ref: 305 (4.5%) New

Ind: 78 (1.4%) New

Ind: 63 (0.9%) New

CPB: 46 (0.7%) New

SFP: 38 (0.6%) New

ADF: 12 (0.2%) New

Ind: 9 (0.1%) New

Ind: 7 (0.1%) New

Lab GAIN from SNP (elected at stage 13)

Chesterton & Launton, Oxfordshire County Council

LDm: 985 (41.7%) +8.9%

Con: 683 (28.9%) +0.6%

Ref: 547 (23.2%) -3.5%

Lab: 75 (3.2%) -2.3%

Grn: 71 (3.0%) -3.6%

LDm HOLD

Llantwit Fardre, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

Con: 1,043 (57.6%) +8.7%

Pld: 329 (18.2%) +1.9%

Ref: 240 (13.3%) New

Lab: 188 (10.4%) -24.4%

Ind: 10 (0.6%) New

Con HOLD

Frome West, Somerset Council

Grn: 663 (40.3%) -6.8%

LDm: 544 (34.6%) +1.2%

Ref: 218 (13.9%) New

Lab: 89 (5.7%) -0.9%

Con: 87 (5.5%) -7.4%

Grn HOLD

Kingswood, Stroud District Council

(held on Wednesday)

LDm: 442 (64.0%) -18.1%

Con: 109 (15.8%) +6.4%

Ref: 70 (10.1%) New

Grn: 40 (5.8%) +1.0%

Lab: 30 (4.3%) +0.5%

LDm HOLD

MEME MONDAY #98

Due in most part to complications from Karl's surgery and Richey's work commitments, last week was incredibly quiet on the meme front.  Karl is currently having to visit his GP surgery at least every two days after a cavity opened up following the removal of the staples used to close up his incision.  This is a major complication that requires ongoing treatment.

Please rest assured, we both intend to resume normal service in the near future.

Tue 25 Aug - 6 shares

Thu 27 Aug - 126 shares

Sun 30 Aug - 4 shares.  An old meme re-edited and re-issued by Richey

Sun 30 Aug - 115 shares

Before Karl's latest medical complication, he embarked on building up a series of Facebook Stories based on the 'Diversity Is Strength' theme.  A couple of these featured last week, with more to follow this week.  Our next edition of Meme Monday will feature a bumper edition of these Facebook Stories, spanning the previous fortnight.

Toon Tuesday will not be returning any time soon, but it is hoped that it will reappear as a regular feature later this autumn.

BOATWATCH #74

A ten day lull in arrivals came crashing to a dramatic end on Thursday when almost 500 colonists were collected in the Channel and brought ashore by collaborator vessels.  Seven boats, packed with an average of more than 70 colonists per vessel, flocked to British waters.  This was followed a day later by three somewhat less crowded vessels, before another lull began on Saturday.

A total of 16,391 small boat migrants have been collected and brought into the UK so far this year, and yet the Burnham regime somehow expects British voters to revel in the fact this figure is significantly down from previous years.

The British people don't want small boat numbers down, they want the boats stopped altogether.

Total = 616 (up 366 from previous week)

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 27.08.26

Five council by-elections took place on Thursday, with two defences each for Labour and Reform, plus one Tory defence.  The latter went to the Greens, who scored a rare gain on the back of a split in the right-wing vote.  This seat was otherwise another impressive new entry for Reform who surged into second place and missed out on victory by only 34 votes.

In the other four contests it was swings and roundabouts for Reform and Labour.  For the second week in a row they gained seats from each other, including a stunning gain for Labour in St Helens.  Labour also technically gained ground as Reform took another seat from them in Sheffield.  Reform had won one of the other council seats in this ward emphatically in May, but their lead over Labour was cut from over a thousand votes to less than 300.  Labour held a seat in London on the back of the declining Green vote, while Reform held relatively easily in Newcastle.

A much better performance overall for Labour this week, with vote share up in three out of five seats.  The Burnham bounce may not be huge, but it is allowing Labour to compete with Reform in a way they could not under the Starmer millstone.  As things stand we are heading for a hung parliament with Labour the biggest party.

Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe, Dover District Council

Grn: 767 (28.8%) +2.7%

Ref: 733 (27.5%) New

Con: 456 (17.1%) -16.0%

Lab: 389 (14.6%) -9.2%

Res: 284 (10.7%) New

Ind: 35 (1.3%) New

Grn GAIN from Con

Triggered by the retirement of the Tory incumbent.  The Conservatives won both seats here in the 2023 election, but lost control of the council for the first time since 2007.  Labour took a very slender majority, which was lost within two years following various resignations and defections.  The slip into no overall control was caused by the defection of a Labour councillor to none other than the Conservatives.  Labour continue to run the council as a minority administration, despite now having less council seats than the aforementioned Tories.  There were plenty of changes to the ballot paper going into Thursday's contest, with no Lib Dem or Heritage Party candidates this time, but three new entries.  The appearance of Reform and Restore Britain looked set to damage the defending Tories and that proved to be the case, with the Greens taking full advantage of the split vote.  It can be argued that Reform's narrow defeat - by just 34 votes - is the first real damage that Rupert Lowe's party has inflicted on his old party.

Karl - Ref GAIN ✘

Rich - Ref GAIN ✘

Throckley, Walbottle & Newburn, Newcastle City Council

Ref: 901 (39.0%) -4.8%

LDm: 670 (29.0%) +24.3%

Lab: 534 (23.1%) -5.9%

Grn: 103 (4.5%) -9.2%

Con: 101 (4.4%) -4.4%

Ref HOLD

Another week, another short-lived Reform councillor.  The incumbent resigned two months after being elected on May 7, citing 'an abrupt change in her health, personal and work commitments'.  That's quite a lot to change simultaneously.  She had won the third seat here in May as Reform took all three of the ward's council seats following boundary changes.  The ward in its previous format historically returned Labour councillors and the party was looking to regain one of those seats on Thursday.  As it turned out, Labour slumped further behind as the Lib Dems surged past them into second place.  A relatively easy hold for Reform.

Karl - Ref HOLD ✔

Rich - Lab GAIN ✘

Southey, Sheffield City Council

Ref: 1,133 (50.6%) +0.6%

Lab: 836 (37.3%) +12.8%

Grn: 146 (6.5%) -6.4%

Con: 69 (3.1%) -1.7%

LDm: 56 (2.5%) -2.2%

Ref GAIN from Lab

Triggered by the resignation of the Labour incumbent, who had been sitting as an independent since April of this year.  It is not clear why he left the Labour party, but he chose to stand down from the council altogether as a consequence of 'personal and family commitments'.  Labour numbers on Sheffield City Council have been in gradual decline since 2012, when they held 60 seats.  This dropped to 25 in May, while in the same period the Green party has gone from two seats to 20.  These two competing left-wing outfits are currently administering Sheffield as a coalition authority.  The incumbent in this ward won easily in 2024, finishing over a thousand votes ahead of the second placed Green.  Things changed dramatically here in May, when it was Reform who surged over a thousand votes in front of Labour.  It wasn't quite as dramatic a victory on Thursday, with Reform's lead cut to just under 300.  There was no independent or Trade Unionist candidate this time, who between them picked up almost 140 votes in May.

Karl - Ref GAIN ✔
Rich - Ref GAIN ✔

Billinge & Seneley Green, St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council

Lab: 1,158 (41.4%) +18.8%

Ref: 892 (31.9%) -2.6%

Ind: 496 (17.7%) -1.5%

Grn: 106 (3.8%) -9.2%

Con: 94 (3.0%) -4.5%

Ind: 60 (2.1%) New

Lab GAIN from Ref

Another departing Reform councillor triggered this by-election after just two months in office.  She cited 'personal reasons' for ending her short stint.  Her party demolished Labour in St Helens on May 7, ending 16 years of outright Labour control and leaving them with just two seats.  This was Reform's second by-election defence since that day, having successfully defended the Haydock ward in June.  It wasn't to be this time as Labour surged in front for an impressive gain.  Reform's candidate had come under fire for 'Islamophobic' and 'anti-vax' social media posts, but it is not clear if this had a major bearing on the result.

Karl - Ref HOLD ✘

Rich - Ref HOLD ✘

Trinity, Wandsworth London Borough Council

Lab: 1,558 (47.5%) +8.8%

Con: 1,431 (43.6%) +9.0%

Grn: 168 (5.1%) -10.8%

LDm: 75 (2.3%) -3.0%

Ref: 51 (1.6%) -2.6%

Lab HOLD

The resignation of the incumbent triggered this vacancy.  She had been Labour's deputy group leader on the council, but there were conflicting reasons why she stood down.  She claimed to have taken a 'politically restricted' job that would automatically require her to relinquish her council role, while almost simultaneously declaring that it was her pregnancy and family commitments that drove her decision.  Either way, we have an intriguing contest between the red and blue half of the Uniparty.  Up until this year, Wandsworth Council was controlled outright by either red or blue.  On May 7, the council slipped into no overall control for the very first time, with the Conservatives taking over from Labour as a minority administration.  The fairly even split of the council was reflected in this ward, which in May divided its two seats between Labour and the Tories.  Once again, it was a closely fought battle between Uniparty candidates, with Labour emerging victorious.  Labour appeared to benefit from a significant swing from the Greens.  There was no independent or Trade Unionist candidate this time, but they only garnered a handful of votes in May.

Karl - Lab HOLD ✔

Rich - Lab HOLD ✔

Mixed results for our team this week, but it was Karl who came out on top.  He cuts Richey's lead down to six.

JESS THE RAPE DEFLECTOR

In January 2016, Jess Phillips belittled the wave of sexual assaults that swept German cities on New Year's Eve just a few weeks earlier.  She likened the horrific event to just 'something that could be described on Broad Street in Birmingham every week'.  Of course, if the sex crimes had been carried out by German men on Arab women, her response would have been very different.  As always, the left apply different standards to 'minority communities'.

It should come as no great surprise to see that Jess has come out once again to belittle and deflect attention away from foreign rapists.  In an interview with Times Radio, she went to extraordinary lengths to divert attention away from the now infamous Home Office pamphlet that is being handed out to boat colonists.  She even threw Polish people under the bus, because they are only white Europeans after all!

Watch below, with Richey's analysis (eight minute watch)

This was Karl's first major edit since major surgery in July.  You can show your appreciation here.

MEME MONDAY #97

OK, so it's now Tuesday and we are a day later than usual on account of time constraints and Karl's surgery.  He is on his feet again and has even had all his staples removed, but he is still a considerable way off a return to full health.  He is producing more, including a new video we'll publish here later.  Last week's meme output was severely limited compared to previous weeks, because Richey did not do as much to top up Karl's output on account of a busy work schedule.

Wed 19 Aug - 1,398 shares

Wed 19 Aug - 104 shares

Wed 19 Aug - 150 shares

Thu 20 Aug - 54 shares

Fri 21 Aug - 24 shares.  Richey's sole effort last week

Sun 23 Aug - 290 shares

Two Facebook Stories were published last week.  R.I.P. Professor Arday - who should not have died - but who should not have lied, either.

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